Best and worst names for cars

[Crispian_J_Hotson]

I was sat at some lights this morning and in my rear view mirror there was a bike behind me called an ahamay... Obviously some cheap obscure far Eastern manufacturer handing out stupid names... Who ever heard of such a thing? Some people are just plain stupid.

[TRW]

[JeeExEll]

The wasted names annoy me, Avenger, Spitfire , Hurricane, Hunter etc.

The Hillman name brings up images of self-sufficiency, outdoors, etc. The first of the Hillman Arrow-series cars were to be named after their designers but the name for the estate model (by Roy Axe) was deemed to be too aggressive, - to be called

The Hillman Hunter Axe.

 

"Hillman Minx" for some reason brings up the image of a hermit transvestite living in a cave.

[JeeExEll]

VW Derby

Why "Derby'? Why not Corby. "Oh yeah, I have a Corby".

 

Mazda Montrose

Nice enough place but why not Arbroath? Cumbernauld even.

"Chuck us the keys to the Cumbernauld luv" has a certain ring to it.

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Mazda St. Cyrus sounds exotic for a pillarless coupe.

[oldcars]

I still wish Honda had made the Kia Soul. We could have had the R version, the R Soul 

[JeeExEll]

A small Audi for friendly owners who let people out at junctions. (A doomed concept).

 

Audi Udu

[Louise2cv]

The Hillman Hunter Axe.

 

Coolest name yet. Would buy.

[Supernaut]

The electric version of the VW Up, also enjoyed by Yorkshiremen, the VW E-Up!

 

(I'm not joking, it's real).

[Paul Dupart]

Humber Super Snipe, you wouldn't want to mess with that!  Sounds like an act of violence received from a Hull docker for looking at him funny in a rough bar.

 

Robin Reliant Robin - wouldn't have been so bad if ever said in the right order, why did folk get this one arse backwards?

 

What about the new model to please all, whatever the gender - MG LGBT

[sierraman]

BMW 325 TDS. Doesn't sound like Tedious one bit.

[DVee8]

The Jaguar mk1, jaguar mk2.

Toyota picnic

[davocano]

Has anyone ever come across seen a purple Toyota Starlet Glanza?

 

Thought not.

[sierraman]

Don't think officially they called them mk1 etc, think it was just Jaguar 3.8 etc

[sierraman]

Has anyone ever come across seen a purple Toyota Starlet Glanza?

 

Thought not.

Glanza sounds like something you'd get wrong with your bollocks.

[davehedgehog31]

Seat Arosa - Sounds like a dildo. 

[lisbon_road]

I think that the problem is that most sensible names have now been used.  I worked in an industry where they got a consultant in to help name a product and came up with loads of weird stuff because anything normal had been used and was covered in someway.

 

Like: plenty, Capri, Cresta, plenty more.

 

Dislike: Belmont, Mokka, but really I save it all for: SPORTAGE.  Ugh.  

[The_Equalizer]

I always liked Defender in the same why that the Royal Navy has some absolute cracking names:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ship_names_of_the_Royal_Navy_(A)

Bentley also had names that we quite fitting such as the Continental, Mulsanne and Azure. Might be something to do with me busting to own a 90s Continental R.

[martc]

The Italians do have a nack of giving a car a good name - sound very Italian but (usually) easily pronounced in foreign tongues. However, like a lot of 'sexy' Italian, the translation to English is very mundane...

 

Uno = one

Punto = point

Tipo = type

Panda = cuddly thing which would be extinct if not for the constant attention of men

Stilo = stylus

 

Velocette, Matchless, Vincent and Triumph are top names.

 

Never could understand Standard - 'What have you got?' 'A Standard'. 'Not a De-luxe?'. No a 'Standard'. (yes I know it was meant to mean either a flag or perhaps 'meeting a (high) standard' (origins are unclear) but even back in the day it's a bit of a lacklustre name).

[timolloyd]

I like Chimera - a fire-breathing monster (unfortunate in a fibreglass car, but hey)

[Junkman]

Don't think officially they called them mk1 etc, think it was just Jaguar 3.8 etc

 

The Mark 1 was only available as a 2.4 and 3.4

Also, the word 'Mark' is always spelled out in Jaaaag lingo.

 

#anorak

[Rod/b]

My nan refused to allow my grandad to buy a Metro City as she was worried people would pronounce it as one word like “atrocity”. Also refused an Orion on the basis it reminded her of Urinal.

[Aston Martin]

How about special editions? I always liked the Citroen C2 Cachet.

[Cleon-Fonte]

Have we decided whether it's 'Kah!', Kaaaaaaahhh or K.A. yet?

[Cleon-Fonte]

Wasn't Golf actually Gulf but the German for Gulf (the wind) is Golf hence the name? Someone then thought it would be so amazingly funny to incorperate golf balls.... probably the same type of person who is a closet fascist and thinks it's a great idea to hit silly white balls with long bats while wearing silly trousers I'm guessing.

 

The various older VWs are mostly named after various windstreams, hence Passat (Passatwinde), Jetta (jet) and Scirocco.

 

The Polo, however, is a play on Golf the sport - which is probably hillarious if you're a 1970s German car firm executive - whilst most of the newer VW names are based on Greek mythology.

[TRW]

My nan refused refused an Orion on the basis it reminded her of Urinal.

 

four door iron was what I heard a long time ago.

[monzaE]

Annoys me when code names are used like AD016 for an 1100 and K10 for a Micra.

[Timewaster]

Special editions:

 

Vauxhall Casa Nova

Nissan Micra Wave

Nissan Micra Dot

Golf Driver

 

Missed opportunities:

 

Mini Stronie

Sierra Nevada

Cavalier Attitude

Metro Polis

Astra Nomical

Scenic Route

Civic Duty

Galaxy Defence

Charisma Bypass

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Seat Arosa - Sounds like a dildo.

I thought Arosa was a small town in Graubünden, Switzerland....

[AMC Rebel]

Have we had Hyundai Terracan? Terrorcan? Who calls a car that?

[davocano]

Some more missed opportunities:

 

Jazz Mag

Sovereign Rings

Bongo Frendless

Qashqai Jamiroquai

 

And why hasn't Fiat produced a Panda with alternating black and white panels à la Polo Harlequin? Maybe they have already, I stand to be corrected.